Muto Tomu 「Weekly Young Magazine」 No.25 2015

I was allowed to announce in today’s Sankei Sports (a Japanese language daily sports newspaper)
I, Kuramochi Asuka will graduate from AKB48.

About eight years after I have passed as a Kenkyuusei,
And I have been active as an akb48 member since then.

Until the formation día when I became Team B’s Captain,
I had never experienced the position of a captain
and every día was learning anything fresh.

When I was allowed to tour with the team last year, we were able to feel the growth of a lot of younger members.
Not only performance looks better, o when during MC lessons…

At that time, my role felt...